The new recording of ‘How Great is Our God’ has a sharp international edge with worship leaders from around the world singing in their native language. Worship favourites ‘Forever’ and ‘We Fall Down’ are also given new life. With 11 other great Tomlin hits they add up to the new Chris Tomlin Essential Collection CD.

Chris Tomlin - the essential collection

‘How Great is Our God’ - The Essential Collection features 14 of Chris Tomlin’s most popular songs including "Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)" and "Jesus Messiah". 8 of these songs are top 10 US radio hits, and 10 are in the Top 50 most sung songs in the church.

Chris Tomlin: How Great is Our God - The Essential Collection1. How Great Is Our God (World Edition) 2. Our God3. Forever 4. The Wonderful Cross (with Matt Redman)5. Famous One6. We Fall Down 7. Indescribable 8. Holy Is the Lord 9. Enough 10. Made to Worship 11. Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) 12. Jesus Messiah 13. God of This City (Live from Passion) 14. I Will Rise 15. How Great Is Our God

Chris Tomlin - the essential profile

Chris Tomlin writes music to connect people to the heart of Jesus and lead them to a deeper worship. After six studio albums totalling up over 3.6million sales and numerous appearances on Passion live worship albums, Chris Tomlin continues to tour the US and worldwide.

Chris Tomlin is among the best known and most influential contemporary Christian musicians with 10 No. 1 Christian radio singles, 3 GRAMMY nominations, 2 Billboard Music Awards, 16 Dove Awards, a platinum and 2 gold albums.

With 19 top 100 CCLI songs - 7 in the top 25, Time Magazine has called Chris Tomlin “the most often sung artist anywhere”. “How Great Is Our God” - first track on The Essential Collection Chris Tomlin’s first No. 1 on the CCLI top 25 winning him the accolade ‘Songwriter of the Year’.

His current No. 1 single “I Lift My Hands” has topped the National Christian Audience chart, while his recent “Our God” spent 9 weeks at No. 1 on the Christian AC Monitored chart.

LES ELLISON

This article was written and published by Les Ellison for Christian.co.uk